Thomas Barton [844] 17 Nov 1792 - 3 Apr 1843 OCCUPATION: Broker Buenos Aires, Argentina BIRTH: 17 Nov 1792, Wigan, Lancashire, England CHRISTENING: 19 Dec 1792, Wigan, Lancashire, England DEATH: 3 Apr 1843, Buenos Aires, Argentina BURIAL: 4 Apr 1843, British Cemetery Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina Father: Thomas Barton Mother: Ann Johnson Family 1 : Rosina Leonora Wild MARRIAGE: 25 Mar 1819, H.M.S. Owen Glendower, off the coast of Buenos Aires +Ann Maria Gabriela Barton +Maria Candelaria Rosina Barton +James Stanley Barton  Thomas Henry Barton +Alfred Downes Barton +Eliza Adelaide Barton  Henrietta Barton +Henrietta Frances Barton +Ralph John Barton Wild

Coat of Arms of the Barton family sent to Buenos Aires in 1811 to Thomas Barton by his aunt Emma Johnson. The acorn tops the crest. A fesse cuts the shield in two fields featuring three harts.

                                             _Ralph Barton _______+
                                            | (1685 - ....) m 1708
                       _Thomas Barton ______|
                      | (.... - 1781) m 1735|
                      |                     |_Alice Rigby ________
                      |                        m 1708             
 _Thomas Barton ______|
| (.... - 1830) m 1789|
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|                     |_Margaret Woods _____|
|                       (1715 - ....) m 1735|
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|--Thomas Barton 
|  (1792 - 1843)
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|                      _Jervais Johnson ____|
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|_Ann Johnson ________|
  (1762 - 1844) m 1789|
                      |                      _____________________
                      |                     |                     
                      |_Elizabeth __________|
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Thomas Barton settled in Buenos Aires in 1815, even though it is likely he was there as early as 1810, as one gathers from the genealogical information of the family Wilde. In 1819 he was married to Rosina Leonora Wild by the protestant chaplain of a Royal Navy Vessel off the coast of Buenos Aires They had 9 children.

He actively participated in the implementation and the financing of several social institutions and facilities to support the British inmigrants in Argentina as well as his brother James.

He died in Buenos Aires in 1843, suffocated by a dust storm, according to Mulhall, or after a short illness, according to the local newspaper The British Packet, which says: "...Thomas Barton, aged 51 years, of which 35 were passed in this country. During this long period, he secured general esteem and respect by the unsullied integrity of his character and the christian fortitude with which he bore up, as long as possible, against many and several trials..."

Source: Maxine Hanon, Diccionario de Británicos en Buenos Aires
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Prior to the revolution against Spain in 1810 the River Plate was closed to foreigners. Nevertheless we find the names of ... Barton.... and others among the merchants of the River Plate...(p.324)
Official trade returns of the port of Buenos Aires in 1817 show that the principal merchants were .....Thomas Barton...(p.325)
Mr Thomas Barton, one of the 12 Englishmen of 1818, was suffocated in a dust storm in April 1843. He came to Buenos Aires in 1808 at the age of 16 (p.334)

Source: Michael G. Mulhall, The English in South America (Buenos Aires: The Standard, 1878; reprint New York: Arno Press, 1977)
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Cinco años en Buenos Aires, 1820-1825 (London: 1825. Attributed to Thomas George Love) places Thomas Barton in a list of 40 British businessmen in Buenos Aires, of a total population of 3,500 Britishmen in Buenos Aires according to the 1822 Census.
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The remains of Thomas Barton were buried first in the Victoria Cemetery and later transferred to the British Cemetery of Chacarita

Source: Jeremy Howat
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Thomas Barton went to Buenos Aires in 1808 aged 16 years.
Mentioned in his father's will 1827 and as deceased in the will of his brother Ralph 1880.

Source: Consuelo Barton's annotated family tree.